Robbing one of the greatest actors of all time of one of those golden statues that everyone wanted to put on the floor this year is the equivalent of giving Michelle Wie a sports lifetime achievement award.

Peter O’Toole is nearly the Tiger Woods of acting and he gets treated like a two-bit journeyman by his voting peers. Plus, O’Toole is damn funny. If you ever caught the 74-year-old on Letterman, you know the guy has crazy story game.

Well into his later years, O’Toole acted about as young as your average frat boy while looking even older than TravelGolf.com’s own Tim McDonald. He freely - and proudly - admits he spent the bulk of his career drunk (O’Toole, not McDonald).

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You are the first of what hopefully will be many columns reflecting the disappointment of us all. The academy is often confusing, but in my eyes never more so than last night not giving up the gold to Peter. If for nothing else, they should have considered what an amazing acceptance speech it would have been, polished and perfect and full charisma, the speech itself would have been nominated next year.

The Academy has never been the free-thinking group they wish they were, nor have they ever stuck their neck out for O'Toole. Only in 2003, when facing an absolute wrestle, did they consent to make up for their misdeeds by giving him a lifetime achievement award. That's sort of like getting the Miss Congeniality award after you've lost for the top post multiple times.

When O'Toole clearly deserved top honors for "Lion In Winter," they decided that his depiction on some dead old English king who they didn't know about, they gave it to American Actor Cliff Robertson, who portrayed a simpleton who got smart and then went back to being retarded in the movie, "Charly." Clearly, they never have relished roles of subtletly.
No, they are lemmings. As predictable as the next awards show.